SRE Podcast
Practitioner conversations on SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and the on-call reality of keeping production boring.
About the SRE hub
Site reliability engineering is where good intentions meet pager duty. The episodes collected here dig into the parts of the job that don't fit on a slide: setting SLOs people will actually defend, spending an error budget instead of hoarding it, and running incidents without turning every Sev1 into a blameless-in-name-only ritual. The throughline is judgment under uncertainty, because reliability work is mostly deciding what's good enough and then proving it.
We keep coming back to the operational fundamentals that separate teams who sleep through the night from teams who don't: observability that answers questions instead of just emitting dashboards, on-call rotations that respect humans, and postmortems that change systems rather than assign fault. If you care about toil reduction, capacity planning, and the slow grind of making production boring, this is the corner of Ship It Weekly for you.
Episodes on SRE
EKS Rollbacks, GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks, AI Agentjacking, CloudWatch Log Alarms, and Why Safety Nets Don’t Replace OwnershipEpisode: EKS Rollbacks, GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks, AI Agentjacking, CloudWatch Log Alarms, and Why Safety Nets Don’t Replace OwnershipThis week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon EKS added Kubernetes version rollbacks, Novee Security published Cordyceps research on GitHub Actions supply chain risk, Tenet Security showed how fake…
Amazon Q CVEs, Hijacked npm and Go Packages, AWS WAF HTTP/2 Issues, Lambda MicroVMs, and Why Execution Is the Boundary NowEpisode: Amazon Q CVEs, Hijacked npm and Go Packages, AWS WAF HTTP/2 Issues, Lambda MicroVMs, and Why Execution Is the Boundary NowThis week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon Q Developer and the AWS language servers had a pair of trust-boundary CVEs, JFrog found hijacked npm and Go packages using…
containerd CRI Vulnerabilities, Datadog PostgreSQL HA on Kubernetes, AWS DevOps Agent with Datadog MCP Server, EKS Control Plane Egress, and Why Users Feel the WaitEpisode: containerd CRI Vulnerabilities, Datadog PostgreSQL HA on Kubernetes, AWS DevOps Agent with Datadog MCP Server, EKS Control Plane Egress, and Why Users Feel the WaitThis week on Ship It Weekly: containerd disclosed a batch of CRI plugin vulnerabilities, Datadog tested PostgreSQL high availability on Kubernetes and found that failover is not useful…
Ship It Conversations: Guardsquare’s Joel DeStefano on Mobile App Security, Runtime Protection, App Hardening, and Why Scanning Isn’t EnoughEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Guardsquare’s Joel DeStefano on Mobile App Security, Runtime Protection, App Hardening, and Why Scanning Isn’t EnoughThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Joel DeStefano from Guardsquare…
PeopleSoft Zero-Day Exploited, npm v12 Install Script Changes, GitHub Agentic Tokens, Anthropic Model Risk, and Default Trust BreakingEpisode: PeopleSoft Zero-Day Exploited, npm v12 Install Script Changes, GitHub Agentic Tokens, Anthropic Model Risk, and Default Trust BreakingThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about default trust getting punished. Brian covers Oracle’s emergency PeopleSoft advisory for CVE-2026-35273, npm v12 changing install-script defaults, GitHub Agentic Workflows…
Ship It Conversations: Meta’s Francois Richard on AI Incident Response, SLOs, and Reliability at ScaleEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Meta’s Francois Richard on AI Incident Response, SLOs, and Reliability at ScaleThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Francois Richard, Engineering Director…
Coinbase Outage, Meta AI Account Recovery, AWS AgentCore Code Injection, Apigee Tenant Isolation, and the Glue That Breaks ProductionEpisode: Coinbase Outage, Meta AI Account Recovery, AWS AgentCore Code Injection, Apigee Tenant Isolation, and the Glue That Breaks ProductionThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about the hidden glue holding production together.Brian covers Coinbase’s May 7 outage postmortem, where an AWS us-east-1 cooling failure exposed the…
Kiro CLI Approval Bypass, Amazon Braket Pickle Risk, AWS Org Logging, KEDA Upgrades, and Automation’s Hidden BoundariesEpisode: Kiro CLI Approval Bypass, Amazon Braket Pickle Risk, AWS Org Logging, KEDA Upgrades, and Automation’s Hidden BoundariesThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about automation’s hidden boundaries. Brian covers Kiro CLI CVE-2026-9255, where piped stdin could act like user approval, Amazon Braket SDK CVE-2026-9291…
GitHub Supply Chain Attacks, Railway’s GCP Outage, Discord’s Voice Failure, AWS Retry Changes, and Trusted Tool RiskEpisode: GitHub Supply Chain Attacks, Railway’s GCP Outage, Discord’s Voice Failure, AWS Retry Changes, and Trusted Tool RiskThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about trusted tools becoming production dependencies. Brian covers a rough GitHub supply chain week, including the compromised Nx Console VS Code…
Ship It Conversations: Jake Warner on Cycle.io, Bare Metal’s Comeback, and Why Private Cloud Is Getting Interesting AgainEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Jake Warner on Cycle.io, Bare Metal’s Comeback, and Why Private Cloud Is Getting Interesting AgainThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Jake Warner, founder and…
CISA’s GitHub Leak, AI Root Cause Analysis, Copilot Agents, Claude Code in CI/CD, and Kubernetes Seccomp RiskEpisode: CISA’s GitHub Leak, AI Root Cause Analysis, Copilot Agents, Claude Code in CI/CD, and Kubernetes Seccomp RiskThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about secrets, agents, risky defaults, and follow-up work that never gets done. Brian covers the CISA contractor GitHub leak involving AWS…
AI Agents Get API Access and Identity: GitHub Copilot Cloud Agents, MCP Auth, Ansible Automation, OpenAI Daybreak, and the New Production RiskEpisode: AI Agents Get API Access and Identity: GitHub Copilot Cloud Agents, MCP Auth, Ansible Automation, OpenAI Daybreak, and the New Production RiskThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about AI agents moving from helpful coding assistants into real operational actors. Brian covers GitHub making Copilot cloud agent tasks available…
Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy FailEpisode: Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy FailThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about modern reliability getting squeezed from both directions. Old-school failures still hit hard, like broken DNSSEC, kernel privilege escalation bugs, and…
Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform KeynoteEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform KeynoteThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.This episode is not sponsored. I wanted to cover IaCConf because the theme…
GitHub RCE, AI Agent Prompt Injection, and the New Reality: Your Developer Toolchain Is Production NowEpisode: GitHub RCE, AI Agent Prompt Injection, and the New Reality: Your Developer Toolchain Is Production NowThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about the developer toolchain becoming part of production. Brian covers GitHub’s critical git push RCE, AI-assisted reverse engineering, prompt injection against…
Kubernetes 1.36, Gateway API v1.5, AWS Copilot End of Support, and Cloudflare Non-Human IdentitiesEpisode: Kubernetes 1.36, Gateway API v1.5, AWS Copilot End of Support, and Cloudflare Non-Human IdentitiesThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about platforms getting sharper about defaults, ownership, and the old paths they are no longer willing to quietly carry forever. Brian…
Ship It Conversations: Stephane Moser on Pipedrive’s Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions Migration, Argo CD, and CI/CD at ScaleEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Stephane Moser on Pipedrive’s Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions Migration, Argo CD, and CI/CD at ScaleThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Stephane Moser about Pipedrive’s…
AWS Interconnect GA, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenTelemetry ConfigEpisode: AWS Interconnect GA, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenTelemetry ConfigThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about networking, ingress, and private access moving further up into the platform layer. Brian covers AWS Interconnect going generally available, Cloudflare…
Special: Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing: AI Exploit Discovery, Zero-Day Risk, Business Fallout, and What It Means for DevOps, Cloud, and Platform SecurityEpisode: Special: Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing: AI Exploit Discovery, Zero-Day Risk, Business Fallout, and What It Means for DevOps, Cloud, and Platform SecurityIn this Ship It Weekly special, Brian breaks down Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing, and why this story matters beyond normal AI launch hype.Anthropic is treating Mythos…
Amazon S3 Files, Malicious npm Plugins, Trivy Fallout, and Kubernetes’ Gateway ShiftEpisode: Amazon S3 Files, Malicious npm Plugins, Trivy Fallout, and Kubernetes’ Gateway ShiftThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about the interface layer becoming the story. Brian covers Amazon S3 Files and why it feels more like a managed filesystem…
Ship It Conversations: Ang Chen on Project Vera, AI Cloud Emulation, and Safer Infrastructure TestingEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Ang Chen on Project Vera, AI Cloud Emulation, and Safer Infrastructure TestingThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Ang Chen from the…
McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on KubernetesEpisode: McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on KubernetesThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at what happens when new interfaces create old responsibilities.McKinsey patched a vulnerability in its internal AI tool Lilli, Kafka contributors…
Meta Buys Moltbook, Block AI Layoffs Get Messier, Atlassian Cuts Jobs, and GitHub Explains the OutagesEpisode: Meta Buys Moltbook, Block AI Layoffs Get Messier, Atlassian Cuts Jobs, and GitHub Explains the OutagesThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian covers five “AI meets reality” stories that every DevOps, SRE, security, and platform team can learn from.Block’s AI layoff story is…
AWS Bahrain/UAE Data Center Issues Amid Iran Strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux GitOps Failures, GitHub Actions Hackerbot-Claw Attacks (Trivy), RoguePilot Codespaces Prompt Injection, Block “AI Remake” Layoffs, Claude Code SecurityEpisode: AWS Bahrain/UAE Data Center Issues Amid Iran Strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux GitOps Failures, GitHub Actions Hackerbot-Claw Attacks (Trivy), RoguePilot Codespaces Prompt Injection, Block “AI Remake” Layoffs, Claude Code SecurityThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the boundary of ops keeps expanding.We cover AWS flagging issues in Bahrain/UAE amid Iran strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux…
Cloudflare BYOIP BGP Withdrawals, Clerk’s Postgres Query-Plan Flip Outage, and AWS Kiro Permissions Lessons (Grafana Privesc + runc CVEs)Episode: Cloudflare BYOIP BGP Withdrawals, Clerk’s Postgres Query-Plan Flip Outage, and AWS Kiro Permissions Lessons (Grafana Privesc + runc CVEs)This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the boundary of ops keeps expanding.We cover AWS flagging issues in Bahrain/UAE amid Iran strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux…
Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI EraEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI EraThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Mike Lady (Senior DevOps…
GitHub Agentic Workflows, Gentoo Leaves GitHub, Argo CD 3.3 Upgrade Gotcha, AWS Config Scope CreepEpisode: GitHub Agentic Workflows, Gentoo Leaves GitHub, Argo CD 3.3 Upgrade Gotcha, AWS Config Scope CreepThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits five stories where the “defaults” are shifting under ops teams.GitHub is bringing Agentic Workflows into Actions, Gentoo is migrating off…
Special: OpenClaw Security Timeline and Fallout: CVE-2026-25253 One-Click Token Leak, Malicious ClawHub Skills, Exposed Agent Control Panels, and Why Local AI Agents Are a New DevOps/SRE Control Plane (OpenAI Hires Founder)Episode: Special: OpenClaw Security Timeline and Fallout: CVE-2026-25253 One-Click Token Leak, Malicious ClawHub Skills, Exposed Agent Control Panels, and Why Local AI Agents Are a New DevOps/SRE Control Plane (OpenAI Hires Founder)In this Ship It Weekly special, Brian breaks down the OpenClaw situation and why it’s bigger than “another CVE.”OpenClaw is a preview of what platform teams are about…
When guardrails break prod: GitHub “Too Many Requests” from legacy defenses, Kubernetes nodes/proxy GET RCE, HCP Vault resilience in an AWS regional outage, and PCI DSS scope creepEpisode: When guardrails break prod: GitHub “Too Many Requests” from legacy defenses, Kubernetes nodes/proxy GET RCE, HCP Vault resilience in an AWS regional outage, and PCI DSS scope creepThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits four stories where the guardrails become the incident.GitHub had “Too Many Requests” caused by legacy abuse protections that outlived their…
Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCPEpisode: Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCPThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits four “control plane + trust boundary” stories where the glue layer becomes the incident.Azure had a platform incident that impacted…
CodeBreach in AWS CodeBuild, Bazel TLS Certificate Expiry Breaks Builds, Helm Charts Reliability Audit, and New n8n Sandbox Escape RCEEpisode: CodeBreach in AWS CodeBuild, Bazel TLS Certificate Expiry Breaks Builds, Helm Charts Reliability Audit, and New n8n Sandbox Escape RCEThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at four “glue failures” that can turn into real outages and real security risk.We start with CodeBreach: AWS disclosed a…
Ship It Conversations: AI Automation for SMBs: What to Automate (And What Not To) (with Austin Reed)Episode: Ship It Conversations: AI Automation for SMBs: What to Automate (And What Not To) (with Austin Reed)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Austin Reed from horizon.dev…
curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer SharingEpisode: curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer SharingThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at three different versions of the same problem: systems are getting faster, but human attention is still the bottleneck.We start…
n8n Auth RCE (CVE-2026-21877), GitHub Artifact Permissions, and AWS DevOps Agent LessonsEpisode: n8n Auth RCE (CVE-2026-21877), GitHub Artifact Permissions, and AWS DevOps Agent LessonsThis week on Ship It Weekly, the theme is simple: the automation layer has become a control plane, and that changes how you should think about risk.We start…
Ship It Conversations: Human-in-the-Loop Fixer Bots and AI Guardrails in CI/CD (with Gracious James)Episode: Ship It Conversations: Human-in-the-Loop Fixer Bots and AI Guardrails in CI/CD (with Gracious James)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Gracious James Eluvathingal about…
n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix TemporalEpisode: n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix TemporalThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian’s theme is basically: the “automation layer” is not a side tool anymore. It’s part of your perimeter, part of your reliability…
Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCAEpisode: Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCAThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian kicks off the new year with one theme: automation is getting faster, and that makes blast radius and oversight matter more…
Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)Episode: Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).I sat down with Eric Paatey, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer who’s been…
Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin AccessEpisode: Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin AccessThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at real platform engineering in the wild.We start with Cloudflare’s write-up on building an internal maintenance scheduler on Workers. It’s…
Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)Episode: Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)This is a Ship It Weekly conversation episode. The weekly news recaps are still weekly. These interviews drop in between when I find someone worth talking to and…
GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CIEpisode: GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CIThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the “platform tax” is showing up everywhere: pricing model shifts, CI dependencies, and new security boundaries thanks to…
IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on AuroraEpisode: IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on AuroraIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian powers through a cold and digs into a very “infra grown-up” week in DevOps.First up, IBM is buying Confluent for…
AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing StagingEpisode: AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing StagingIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at re:Invent through a platform/SRE lens and pulls out the updates that actually change how you design and run…
Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub GuardrailsEpisode: Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub GuardrailsIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into what’s new for people actually running infra: Kubernetes config, EKS control planes and networking, and GitHub’s latest CI/CD…
Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SREEpisode: Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SREIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into 3 big themes for anyone running Kubernetes or building internal platforms.First, Kubernetes is officially retiring Ingress NGINX and…
Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub OutagesEpisode: Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub OutagesIn this special kickoff episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian walks through three major outages from the last few weeks and what they actually mean for DevOps, SRE,…
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Frequently asked questions
What topics does the SRE podcast hub focus on?
It collects episodes on the parts of site reliability that don't fit on a slide: setting SLOs people will defend, spending an error budget instead of hoarding it, running incidents without blame theater, and the observability and on-call practices that keep production boring.
Who is this SRE feed for?
Engineers who care about reliability work — SLOs and SLIs, toil reduction, capacity planning, on-call health, and postmortems that change systems rather than assign fault.
How do episodes get added to this hub?
Episodes are matched automatically when they touch SRE topics like SLOs, error budgets, observability, incidents, on-call, or postmortems, so the list reflects the latest relevant Ship It Weekly episodes.
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This hub is the podcast: practitioner conversations you listen to. On Call Brief's SRE News is the weekly written digest of outages, postmortems, and observability changes. The two cross-link so you can switch between listening and reading.
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